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Latitude Longitude Longitude and Latitude Maps Map Projections Potpourri Jeopardy

Cat Back How far can you measure north or south of the equator? 90 degrees

Cat Back What is the Tropic of Cancer? 23.5 degrees north latitude.

Cat Back What is the Antarctic Circle? 66.5 degrees south latitude

Cat Back What is the synonym for latitude? Parallels

Cat Back Which direction do latitude lines run, and which direction do they measure distance? East to west and north to south

Back Cat What is the Prime Meridian? 0 degrees longitude.

Back Cat How far can you measure east or west of the Prime Meridian? 180 degrees.

Back Cat What is the synonym for longitude? Meridians.

Back Cat How many fixed points of reference does longitude have? Two

Back Cat Which direction do longitude lines run, and which direction do they measure distance? North to south and east to west

Back Cat What are longitude lines? Lines that run north to south but measure east to west.

Back Cat What is a compass rose? This shows the four cardinal directions.

Back Cat What are the North Pole, Arctic Circle and Tropic of Cancer? These are the 3 fixed points of reference for latitude in the northern hemisphere.

Back Cat What are the two fixed points of reference for longitude? The Prime Meridian and the International Dateline

Back Cat What are the Equator and Prime Meridian? These separate the earth into the northern and southern hemisphere and the eastern and western hemisphere.

Back Cat What are the three types of maps? Political, physical and special purpose/ thematic.

Back Cat What is a political map? This map shows cities, states, and countries

Back Cat What is a legend or key? This explains what the symbols and colors on a map mean.

Back Cat What is a special purpose map? To study changes in population you would use this type of map.

Back Cat What is scale? This represents the distance on the map to the relative distance on the ground.

Back Cat What are the three types of map projections? Mercator/Cylindrical, Conic, Flat- Plane/Lambert Equal area.

Back Cat What is distortion? This is what all maps show.

Back Cat What is the Mercator or cylindrical projection? This type of projection is used for nautical navigation.

Back Cat What is the conic projection? This projection is best for large landmasses that run east to west.

Back Cat What is a flat-plane or Lambert Equal Area projection? This map is good for showing the polar regions and small places of roughly equal area.

Back Cat What is 5? This is number of themes we have discussed in class.

Back Cat What are location, place, movement, region, and interaction? These are the themes of Geography

Back Cat What is absolute location or site? “315 E. Eleventh Street” is an example of this theme.

Back Cat What is movement? A person arriving from Austria to Switzerland is an example of this theme.

Back Cat What is human-environment interaction? Mining for gold is an example of this theme.